Archive: July, 2012

Bob Vetrone Jr.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 1:16 AM

Shane Victorino is the 19th of the 25 players who appeared for the Phillies in the 2008 postseason to leave the club. (Kyle Kendrick, still with the club, did not appear in any playoff games that season, although he was a regular season mainstay.)
Those 19 departures, chronologically:
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Bob Vetrone Jr.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 12:58 AM

According to ESPN Stats & Info, Jimmy Rollins now has more inside-the-park home runs since 2000 (four) than any one else in baseball. Tied at three are Chase Utley, David DeJesus, Carl Crawford and Curtis Granderson.
He is now tied for 10th in Phillies history (since 1900):
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ITP...
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Bob Vetrone Jr.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 1:46 AM

The Phillies have to feel good getting out of Atlanta, after being swept by the Braves. But it would have been better had they not had to meander into another intradivision city right away.
So far this season, the Phillies are 11-25 against the NL East, but two games over .500 (34-32) when they play...
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Bob Vetrone Jr.

Monday, July 30, 2012, 2:38 AM

Sunday, Roy Halladay became the 67th major league pitcher to reach 2,000 strikeouts.
He is the 14th of those 67 to have played at least some of his career with the Phillies.
Those 14:
Pitcher
Career
Total
Phillies
Total
Steve Carlton
4136
3031
Ferguson Jenkins
3192
12
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Bob Vetrone Jr.

Sunday, July 29, 2012, 3:48 PM

Through Saturday, Hunter Pence had played 100 games for the Phillies this season, which is the same number of games he had played for the Astros last season before the Phils acquired him.
Here are how his numbers compare through 100 games last year and this year:
2012
2011
Games
100
100
Team's...
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Bob Vetrone Jr.

Sunday, July 29, 2012, 2:23 PM

If you haven't already, please check out the philly.com sports main Eagles training camp page, updated daily with many things, including a one-off Eagles BoopStat. Here are last week's:
♦ The Eagles were 5-1 vs. the NFC East last season, 1-5 against the rest of the conference.
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Bob Vetrone Jr.

Saturday, July 28, 2012, 12:00 AM

(We post a baseball trivia question every Saturday, just for fun, as well as a detailed answer, stats, charts and commentary on the previous week's question. Pass along your questions, thoughts and ideas to vetronb@phillynews.com.)
THIS WEEK'S QUESTION
Since 1933, there have been nine triple crown...
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Bob Vetrone Jr.

Friday, July 27, 2012, 12:00 AM

The Phillies will be aiming for their fifth consecutive win Friday night in Atlanta and while they would probably prefer to win by a couple of touchdowns, a one-run victory would match their previous four and tie a team mark set in 1966 and equaled in 1970 (home team in CAPS):
Sept. 21, 1966: Phillies...
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Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

His favorite books growing up were the NBA Guide and the Baseball Encyclopedia, which was, for all intents and purposes, the Internet before there was an Internet.

He has been immersed in sports statistics since the early 70s, when his father (long-time sports writer, broadcaster and the Daily News’ Buck The Bartender), would take him into the Bulletin newsroom overnight in the summer and let him update the Phillies statistics in a little, black spiral notebook. But things have changed tremendously in the decades since … He now uses a big, black spiral notebook.